Open source alternatives to Screaming Frog

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Screaming Frog does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Screaming Frog does

  1. Crawl a website like a search enginecore
  2. Find broken links, redirects and errorscore
  3. Audit titles, meta tags and headings
  4. Generate XML sitemaps
  5. Find duplicate content
  6. Render JavaScript pages
  7. Export crawl reports

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

ProjectCoversStarsCommits, 12 weeksLast releaseClosed vs openedSetupLicense
rankme.fastSelf-hosted SEO platform for site audits, keywords and backlinks Covers one part72%963+96
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None80% Hosted version AGPL-3.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Generate XML sitemaps. Not shown: Find duplicate content; Render JavaScript pages.See the evidence
  • Crawl a website like a search enginecoreYesCrawl a site, run 26 automated checks
  • Find broken links, redirects and errorscoreYesBroken internal links
  • Audit titles, meta tags and headingsYesMissing page titles
  • Generate XML sitemapsPartlySearch Console (performance, URL Inspection, sitemaps)
  • Find duplicate contentNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • Render JavaScript pagesNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.
  • Export crawl reportsYesPDF/CSV exports

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